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Becoming Fiction - Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's "Stoffe" (Hardcover, New edition)
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Becoming Fiction - Reassessing Atheism in Duerrenmatt's "Stoffe" (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 131
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Becoming Fiction: Reassessing Atheism in Durrenmatt's Stoffe sets
forth a clarification of the importance of Friedrich Durrenmatt,
modern Swiss dramatist, essayist, novelist and self-proclaimed
atheist (1921-1990), and offers new insights into the ways in which
his father's vocation as a Protestant minister, along with
Durrenmatt's own decision as a young man to pursue a career in
writing rather than religion, shaped his world view and, in
particular, made necessary a final, desperate attempt to
fictionally recast his own life through revisions and
amplifications of many of his earlier works when he created his
final prose volume, Stoffe. Durrenmatt devoted immense energy in
his writings to wrestling with his father's God as a way of seeking
self-identity. That perceived loss of his father's esteem became
the motor behind his works. After earlier successes, the icy
reception of his most ambitious play, Der Mitmacher, in 1976, left
the author in such a frustrated state of disappointment that he
reached a point of linguistic breakdown. This book contends that
Durrenmatt's loss of voice forced the author to a new kind of
writing: a 're-turn' home. Becoming Fiction explores the damage
caused by Durrenmatt's inability to express his most central
beliefs through the outdated, deceptive modes of linguistic thought
and tradition. Consequently, the book argues, at the point of that
breakdown of rigid linguistic and theological concepts, a space was
forced open, and the Stoffe reveal a Divine presence.
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